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The great Stelios Vamvakaris is dead

Son of the patriarch of the Greek rebetiko music (Greek blues) Markos Vamvakaris

Newsroom June 17 09:30

 

The great Greek composer and master bouzouki-player, Stelios Vamvakaris, 72, son of the patriarch of the Greek rebetiko music (a.k.a. Greek blues) Markos Vamvakaris, died on Monday.

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He was born on 2 March 1947 in Palaia Kokkinia, Piraeus. He experienced with his father Markos the difficulties and his rebirth of the Greek rebetiko.

He collaborated with great musicians: Perpiniadis, Grey, Angelopoulos and many others.

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